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Mastering openFrameworks: Creative Coding Demystified

By : Denis Perevalov
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Mastering openFrameworks: Creative Coding Demystified

By: Denis Perevalov

Overview of this book

openFrameworks is a powerful programming toolkit and library designed to assist the creative process through simplicity and intuitiveness. It's a very handy software library written in C++ to reduce the software development process, helping you to kick-start creative coding. With the help of C++ and shaders support, openFrameworks allows for the processing of all kinds of media information with your custom-developed algorithms at the lowest possible level, with the fastest speed. "Mastering openFrameworks: Creative Coding Demystified" will introduce you to a world of creative coding projects, including interactive installations, audio-visual, and sound art projects. You will learn how to make your own projects using openFrameworks. This book focuses on low-level data processing, which allows you to create really unique and cutting-edge installations and projects. "Mastering openFrameworks: Creative Coding Demystified" provides a complete introduction to openFrameworks, including installation, core capabilities, and addons. Advanced topics like shaders, computer vision, and depth cameras are also covered. We start off by discussing the basic topics such as image and video loading, rendering and processing, playing sound samples, and synthesizing new sounds. We then move on to cover 3D graphics, computer vision, and depth cameras. You will also learn a number of advanced topics such as video mapping, interactive floors and walls, video morphing, networking, and using geometry shaders. You will learn everything you need to know in order to create your own projects; create projects of all levels, ranging from simple creative-code experiments, to big interactive systems consisting of a number of computers, depth cameras, and projectors.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Mastering openFrameworks: Creative Coding Demystified
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Working with ofxCv images


The main object of computer vision is the image. So before diving into image processing and analysis, we should learn how to work with OpenCV-related images freely. We will consider images of classes ofxCvColorImage, ofxCvGrayscaleImage, ofxCvFloatImage, and ofxCvShortImage. These class names have the prefix ofxCv, so we will call them ofxCv images. To be precise, we will assume that we have these image objects:

ofxCvColorImage image, image2;                //Color images
ofxCvGrayscaleImage grayImage, grayImage2;    //Grayscale images
ofxCvFloatImage floatImage;                   //Float-type image
ofxCvShortImage shortImage;  //Image with "unsigned short" pixels

It is convenient to group functions and operations into several groups.

Image initializing

You always need to initialize an image before using it for the first time. Let us look at a few functions used to initialize images:

  • The allocate( w, h ) function initializes the image with width w and height h pixels...